Hi, we are in the process of Migrating a SharePoint 2010 + June 2011CU server farm to a new Blade Server Farm.

One of our questions is what O/S to use for the new SharePoint 2010 Farm?

Looks like you need SharePoint 2010 SP2 to be able to run Server 2012 R2?

We are in the progress of upgrading SharePoint to SP2 so can get around that but what is the best O/S for SharePoint 2010?

Thanks

Hiya,

Latest O/S.

The latest is not always supported so i would be hesitant to recommend that to someone?

Bad formulation; Latest O/S should be more like; I would always use latest supported O/S for any SharePoint installation.

Hi Danie, You are correct as long as the you have SharePoint SP2, you could go with Server 2012 if you wanted.  It runs good on 2012 with 2010 SharePoint SP2 in my experience. 

I would recommend going this route, if you have to stay on 2010 SharePoint,

                          longer support for the underlying OS. . .

If you can use this as an opportunity to upgrade to 2013 SharePoint, that's really your best option.

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2724471/en-us?wa=wsignin1.0 - MSFT on Server 2012 SP2 and SharePoint 2010.

Thanks Guy's

Just to clarify...not talking about supported o/s(But obviously needs to be supported)

More on what would be most stable and best o/s for SharePoint 2010.

In my mind SharePoint 2010 was written while Server 2008 R2 was the server o/s and would be better suited for SharePoint 2010...

Also you cant do in-place upgrade from SP2010 to SP2013 so there is no point in having the newer o/s for upgrade.

SharePoint shouldn't care too much which OS it's on.

Server 2012 R2 is easier to administrate than 2008 R2, saving you effort (plus a lot of the patch time on installation).

You still see SharePoint 2003 instances around today on OSs that are out of support. We're already out of mainstream support for 2008 R2 and extended support runs out in 5 years. That may be enough time but 5 years for an enterprise IT system isn't that unusual.

Stability is an intangible, without access to data MS would never let us have we wouldn't be able to predict if an OS that is out of mainstream support is going to be more or less susceptible to issues than the current flagship.

Ok, what i have heard but did not want to mention it yet is that there are some Kerberos issues caused by AppFabirc on Server 2012 R2?

Anyone know about that?